Endorsement to Declaration reaches 2,200 signatories from 120 countries, including more than 800 organizations
UN Secretary General synthesis report ”The Road to Dignity by 2030", released on Dec. 4 as a lead up the final round of negotiations on the post-2015 Development Agenda. It recognizes the enabling role of culture:

“We must also mobilize the power of culture in the transformative change we seek. Our world is a remarkable mosaic of diverse cultures, informing our evolving understanding of sustainable development. We still have much to learn from cultures as we build the world we want. If we are to succ governments. It must be embraced by people. Culture, in differenteed, the new agenda cannot remain the exclusive domain of institutions and aspects, will thus be an important force in supporting the new agenda.” (Para. 132)

With the aim of strengthening the climate of peace and reconciliation of the Colombian people and of expanding the dialoging and visionary spirit of poetry, in a city sorely affected and segmented by complex social problems, there shall be celebrated, from July 11th to 18th, the first 25 years of existence of the Medellín International Poetry Festival, one of the great icons in the struggle to overcome the deep hatred that divides us due to a long conflict, and to materialize utopia in our country.

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The poet’s power, though invisible, is very real. Poets are one of the unappreciated voices of influence for social change.

The social role of poetry has changed very much in the last 200 years. Poets were unappreciated then, by a huge majority of the population, and they are only somewhat less recognized now. Emily Dickinson’s views regarding pertinent political issues in America were not sought after when she was alive. Presently no one in authority in 2015 is asking for Nick Flynn’s views on climate change.

It is very difficult to talk about poetry; therefore, no one has been able to give a satisfying definition about poetry and writing poems.

I think, poetry has its own world, a world different from what has been defined by philosophy or science. This world from different aspects, creates thoughts for the human society, that are full of reality as well as imaginations at the same time.

As I am writing this essay, I am also waiting for this year’s super typhoon Hagupit to make its landfall in the densely populated Manila. Thirteen months ago, I was likewise by my laptop writing my fears away as Haiyan—the deadliest typhoon ever recorded in history—destroyed areas in the Leyte-Samar islands, leveled off Tacloban City, and killed thousands of people in a few harrowing hours. In my birthplace alone—a small island called Basey (Samar)—more than 300 bodies were found dead the morning after.

The Medellín International Poetry Festival, within the celebrations for its first 25 years in existence, is holding the First World Poetry Award in honor of the great French poet René Char, to be governed by the following

RULES

1. The award is open to poets of all nationalities.
2. The works eligible for the René Char World Poetry Award shall be the poetic works published in Spanish or English as from January 2013, or works written and published in other languages which have been translated into Spanish or English, even if such translations have not been published.

The UAE International Award for Poets of Peace was launched at a press conference held at the International Humanitarian City (IHC) in Dubai yesterday. In cooperation with the United Nations World Food Programmed (WFP) in the UAE, it is the first award of its kind, bridging a multitude of nationalities and languages in which poets will present their sonnets, spreading a message of peace around the world.

The global award aims at using poetry to spread awareness amongst people about the importance of peace and raises further consciousness for humanitarian work around the world.

The ninth edition of Kritya International Poetry Festival was held from November 16 – 18, 2014 at the Vyloppilli Samskriti Bhavan, Thiruvananthapuram. The venue was in all respects ideal for such a function, being dedicated to the renowned Malayalam poet Vyloppilli Sreedhara Menon. The festival theme was “Enlightenment through Poetry” and sought to explore the enlightening and uniting aspect of poetry and its sister arts, and how art as a medium could be put to constructive use on an individual as well as on a collective basis.

Today, poetry is still is vital for life and language. Poet Paz once said: Believe a poem is eternal that is believed language is eternal.

Today's poetry does not seem as brilliant as Homer’s epic, or like medieval Dante’s Divine Comedy, which exudes the light of deterrence. We must accept today's poetry is from old evergreen trees. However, from an anthropological or aesthetic historical point of view, there is one thing that is eternal: there is no love without poetry. Poetry is always the poet's aura.

Qassim Haddad was born in Bahrain, Persian Gulf, in 1948. He is a member of Coordinating Committee of World Poetry Movement (WPM). He was working at Bahrain’s Public Library, 1968-1975 and at the Information Ministry’s Culture and Arts Departament. 1980. Co-founded Bahrain Writers Association, 1969, and held several of its senior positions. Editor-in Chief of Kalimat magazine launched in 1987. Co-founder of Awal Theartre, 1970. Column writer in several Arab newspapers since the early 1980s. His poetry has been the subject of many thesis and studies in Arab and foreign Universities and publications His poems were translated into several foreign languages. Participated in many Arab and international poetry events Launched a website on Arabic Poetry in 1994.

Deborah Miranda was born in Los Angeles, USA, in 1961. She is a poet and writer and belongs to the native community Eselen-Chumash. She is professor of English at the University of Washington and Lee University, where she conducts courses in creative writing (poetry) and literature of the American peoples and women's literature. She has published, among others, the books of poetry: Indian Cartography, 1999; The Zen of La Llorona, 2005; and Deer, a chapbook.

The cathedral’s walls sweat their thousand-year iodine.
Grooves and catacombs haunted by the white.
Time drips like Lot’s wife at the foot of the bonfires.
I carry the dough’s shine in my coat pocket,
A silver lump of stone which miners call fool’s gold.
Outside, the green savanna shines
And a slice of light kisses the mountains.

Armand Garnet Ruffo was born in Chapleau, Ontario, Canada in 1955. He is a poet, playwright, university professor and director of creative writing workshops. He belongs to the Ojibway Nation. He has published the following books of poetry: Opening in the Sky, 1994; Grey Owl: the Mystery of Archie Belaney, 1997; At Geronimo's Grave, 2001. Plays: Ghost Woman; A Windigo Tale and Portrait of the Artist as Indian. He obtained the Canadian Authors' Association Prize for Poetry, 2000 and Lampman-Scott Prize, 2002, among other recognitions.

An International Festival of Poetry, KRITYA 2014 is scheduled to be held from the 16th to 18th November at Vyloppilli Samskrithi Bhavan, Thiruvananthapuram. Held annually without fail since the year 2005, this poetry festival attracts poets, poetry lovers and artists from all over the world.

Lisa Bellear was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, in 1961. She was a poet from the Nation Noonuccal Minjerribah, Stradbroke Island, Australia. She was also an artist, photographer, activist, playwright and comedian. Her work explores her Aboriginal roots. Some of her published books are: Dreaming In Urban Areas, 1996; and The Dirty Mile: A History of Indigenous Fizroy, a Suburb of Melbourne. She died in 2006.

Gloria Bird was born in the Yakima Valley, Washington, USA, in 1951. She belongs to the Spokane Nation. She is a poet, editor, and academic. She obtained a Master in Literature at the University of Arizona. Among her published books are: The River of History; Full Moon on the Reservation. She obtained the Diane Decorah Memorial Poetry Prize. She co-founded the Northwest Native American Writers Association.

Facing up the increased tendency of events, that recently have been happening due to the upsurge of cases of this lethal scourge to our humanity, the World Poetry Movement (WPM), manifests itself by a determinant way in favour of efficient and swift solutions to this sensible subject, which requires all the attention of health stances worldwide.

Yvette Holt was born in Australia in 1971. She is part of the Nation Bidjara. She is a poet, educator, academic, activist for women's rights, and traveler. Her prizes include the Scanlon Prize, the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Indigenous Writing for her collection, Anonymous Premonition, and the 2010 Kate Challis Award.

Wayne Keon was born in Pembroke, Ontario, Canada, in 1946. He is a poet, narrator and painter. His published books include: Thunderbirds of the Ottawa, 1977; Sweetgrass II, 1990; Down to Agawa, 1991; Silver and Rain, 1992; Storm Dancer, 1993; My Sweet Maize, 1997. He has been included in many anthologies and publications. He has read his poems in Canada, USA and throughout Europe. In his words, “having grown lakeside Elliot, in this physical environment, mountains, lakes, streams, pine, maple forests, crows, foxes, wolves, bobcats, hawks, influenced my writing".

Lenore Keeshig-Tobias was born in Wiarton, Ontario, Canada, in 1950. She belongs to the Nation Shippewa. She is a poet, storyteller and writer for children. She is connected to the oral tradition as a storyteller. Bachelor of Fine Arts. Her poetry is based on the realities of Indian life and mythological icons and symbols of her people. Some of her published books are: Bineshiinh dibaajmowin / Bird Talk, 1991; Emma and the Trees, 1995; Into the Moon, 1996.

Gail Tremblay was born in Buffalo, New York, USA, in 1945. She belongs to the Mi'kmaq-Onondaga Nation. She is a poet, playwright, teacher and artist. She has received many awards for her poetry. She is the autor of the following books of poetry: Night Gives Women the Word, 1979; Close to Home, 1981, and Indian Singing in 20th Century America, 1990. “Blending modern and traditional styles in both her writing and her artwork, Tremblay juxtaposes the modern Native American experience with tradition, placing emphasis on the encounters between past and present. Her poetry explores the isolation that accompanies cultural misunderstanding and centuries of oppression.”

Jeannette Armstrong was born in the Penticton Indian reserve in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia, Canada, in 1948. She belongs to the Okanagan Nation. She is a poet, novelist, short story writer, essayist, artist, educator, children's writer and political activist. Her works include: Breath Tracks, 1991 y "Trickster Time" in Voices: Being Native in Canada, 1992 (Poetry). Slash, 1985; Whispering in Shadows, 2000 (Novels); and the book of short stories, "This is a Story," in All My Relations: An Anthology of Contemporary Canadian Native Fiction, 1990.

Bahraini poet. Wrote the short story and the novel, Interpreter, and is particularly interested in cinema Wrote the story and screenplay first film in Bahrain (barrier) Many of his television business in the field of drama.A member of a family of writers and writers in Bahrain Member of the awal Theatre - Bahrain Some of his stories have been translated to foreign languages. He has published more than twenty books.

Treviño Brings Plenty was born in Eagle Butte, Cheyenne River Reservation, USA, in 1976. He belongs to the Lakota Nation. He is a poet, songwriter, singer and guitarist. In his works he describes urban Indian life and explores the identity of the American Indians in the American Culture and how through genealogical history have affected indigenous peoples in the 21st century. Some of his published books are: Real Indian Junk Jewelry, 2012; Shedding Skins: Four Sioux Poets, 2008.

Randy Lundy was born in Thompson, Manitoba, Canada, in 1967. H is part of the Cree Nation. He grew up in dialogue with nature, at the confluence of three rivers. He has published, among other books of poems: Under the Night Sun, 1999 and The Gift of the Hawk. He studied Religion, Philosophy and Literature. Under the Nocturnal Sun has been said “mixes a picture of life of many urban ruined Aboriginal people and the celebration of nature and the possible connections between passionate people and spirit.”

Elizabeth Cook-Lynn was born in Fort Thompson, South Dakota, United States in 1930. She belongs to the Crow Creek Sioux Nation. She is a poet, storyteller, essayist, editor, journalist, psychologist, university professor and academic. Her published books include: I Remember the Fallen Trees: New and Selected Poems, 1998; The Power of Horses and Other Stories, 1990; Seek the House of Relatives, 1983. In 2009, she obtained the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas.

On November 15, 2014, poets, speakers, and musicians will gather in San Francisco in collaboration and celebration on the theme Overthrowing Capitalism, organized by the Revolutionary Poets Brigade in conjunction with the World Poetry Movement.
We expect it to be a day filled with sophisticated and inspiring visions, insights, ideas, exposés, and analyses from artists, thinkers, and activists who are serious about the work ahead. Words that unmask capitalism and raise our consciousness to hopefully lead the world into a more cooperative society. What is capitalism? Might it be reformed into a constructive force, or can we move beyond it only by overthrowing it? What does overthrowing capitalism look like? How do we know when it's overthrown? What might a post-capitalist world look like?

Ofelia Zepeda was born in Stanfield, Arizona, USA, in 1952. She is a poet, linguist and university professor. She earned an MA and a PhD in linguistics from the University of Arizona and is the author of a grammar of the Tohono O'odham language, A Papago Grammar, 1983. Zepeda’s poetry collections include Ocean Power: Poems from the Desert, 1995 and Jewed’l-hoi/Earth Movements, O’Odham Poems (1996). Zepeda’s poetry touches on linguistics, O’odham traditions, the natural world, and the experience of contemporary O’odham life. Her work is influenced by traditional Papago themes and songs.

Oodgeroo Noonuccal was born in Australia in 1920. She was a poet, artist, educator, essayist, children's writer and political activist. She was the first Australian native to publish a book. Her books of poetry published include: Municipal Gum, 1960; We Are Going: Poems, 1964; The Dawn Is at Hand: Poems, 1966; My People: A Kath Walker Collection, 1970; The Past, 1970; No More Boomerang, 1985; Kath Walker in China, 1988; The Colour Bar, 1990; Oodgeroo, 1994; Let Us Not Be Bitter, 1990; White Australia, 1970; All One Race, 1970; The Unhappy Race, 1989; Then and Now, 1970. She died in 1993.

Samuel Wagan Watson was born in Brisbane, Australia, in 1972. He is a poet, narrator, storyteller, academic, musician, artist and activist. Some of his books of poetry are: Of Muse, Meandering and Midnight, 1999; Itinerant Blues, 2002; Hotel Bone, 2001; Smoke Encrypted Whispers, 2004; Three legged dogs, and other poems, 2005 and The Curse Words, 2011. Among other important recognitions, he was the winner of the David Unaipon Award.

Rose-Marie Huuva was born in Rensjon, Sweden in 1943. She belongs to the Samiu Nation. She is a poeta, enssayist and visual artist. She belongs to the Sweden Writers Union and also the Visual Artist Union. She writes in Sami and has published five books of poetry. Her sculptures, installations and other art works have been exhibited in Europe, Japan, USA, Russia and Panama.

Marie Annharte Baker was born in Canadá in 1942. She belongs to the Anichinaabe Nation. She is a poet, essayist, storyteller, performer, professor, cultural critic and activist. Some of her books: Being on the Moon, 1990; Coyote Columbus Cafe, 1994; Blueberry canoe, 2001; Exercises in Lip Pointing, 2003; Indigena Awry, 2013.

Hone Tuware was born in Kaikohe, New Zealand, in 1922 and died in 2008. He was a poet and playwright. Books published: No Ordinary Sun, 1964; Come Rain Hail, 1970; Sapwood and Milk, 1972; Something Nothing, 1973; Making a Fist of It, 1978; Selected Poems, 1980; Year of the Dog, 1982; Mihi: Collected Poems, 1987; Short Back & Sideways, 1992; Deep River Talk: Collected Poems, 1994; Shape-Shifter, 1997; Piggy-back Moon, 2001; Oooooo......!!!, 2005. He has been recognized as the New Zealand's most distinguished Maori writer.

First and foremost, with greatest humility I must excuse my absence in your midst today, one of the blessed recipients from afar onto this podium, to partake of a moment which speaks so eloquently of your magnanimity and generosity to confer such an honor on me.

Lance Henson was born in Washington in 1944 and earned a Master in Creative Writing at the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma. He is a poet, writer, dancer, painter and cultural activist. He belongs to the Cheyenne Nation. He has published 28 books of poetry, including: A Cheyenne Sketchbook, 1985; Another Song for America, 1987; Another distance, 1991; In a Dark Mist, 1992; and Strong heart song : lines from a revolutionary text poetry, 1997. His poems have been translated into 25 languages.

Navarre Scott Momaday was born in Lawton, Oklahoma, USA, in 1934. He is a poet, essayist, novelist, playwright and professor in the University of Arizona. Some of his poetry books: Angle of geese and other poems, 1974; The Way to Rainy Mountain, 1976; In the Bear's House, 2000; In the Presence of the Sun: Stories and Poems, 1961-1991, 2009; y Again the Far Morning: New and Selected Poems, 2013. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1969.

Joanne Arnott was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1960. She is a poet, writer, literary workshop coordinator and author of children's literature. She has published the books of poetry: Wiles of Girlhood (Gerald Lampert Award), 1991; My Grass Cradle, 1992; Steepy Mountain: love poetry, 2004; Mother Time: Poems New & Selected, 2007; Longing: Four Poems on diverse matters, 2008; The Family of Crow, 2012; A Night for the Lady, 2013.

Nora Marks Dauenhauer was born in Juneau, Alaska, USA, in 1927. She belongs to the Tlingit Nation. Alaska's new State Writer Laureate, she is a poet, short-story writer, scholar of the language and Tlinglit traditions, translating, transcribing, and compiling Tlingit stories, sometimes together with her husband, Richard Dauenhauer who is also a writer and linguist. Some of her poetry books: Egg Boat, 1983; For healing our spirit : Tlingit oratory, 1990; Our ancestors speak, 1987; Our Culture, 1994; The droning shaman, 1988; Beginning Tlingit, 1976; Life woven with song, 2000.

Duke Redbird was born in Southampton, Ontario, Canada, in 1939. He is a poet, painter, esayist, tv screenplay and film director. Some of his books: I am Canadian, 1978; Loveshine and Red Wine, 1981 and Red on White, 1981 and We are Metis: A Metis view of the development of a native Canadian people, 1980. He belongs to the Saugeen Nation. In the sixties and seventies he was in the forefront of Native political organizations.

The Centre for Creative Arts (University of KwaZulu-Natal), with principal funding from the City of Durban and the KwaZulu Natal Department of Arts and Culture, calls out to students to submit poems as part of the 18th POETRY AFRICA Schools Competition.

We are inviting Palestinians poets from every where in the world for this festival. This year we have poets from Haifa, New York, Cairo, Gaza and Jerousalem. The invited poets are: Mourid Al-Barghouti, Nathaly Handal, Bashir Shalash, Abdul-Rahim As-Shaikh and Donia Ismail.

When the bombs rain down on Gaza
Silent cries over Palestine skies
In our heart knowing we must act
When we heard their plea
Innocent people slaughtered each day
Knowing we must play
Play our part to set them free

As part of the recent shocking and 24th International Poetry Festival of Medellin met for five sessions among 20 and 26 July 2014, the World Poetry Movement Coordinating Committee, approving a statement that calls for a profound international poetic revolution .

With joyful and grateful we present Breath Becoming a Word, Contemporary Gujarati Poetry, in English translation, developed by Dileep Jhaveri, poet and member of WPM in India.

Here the presentation of the book by the editor.

This is to celebrate the breath becoming a word and the joy of word turning into poetry. This is
to welcome the lovers of poetry in other languages to participate in the festival of contemporary Gujarati
poetry.

"My neck is on the edge of the knife,
O, my homeland, and yet
I tell you: Wait for me!
And my hands are tied behind my back,
O, my homeland
And yet I sing
for you, o, my wound..I sing
“I have not betrayed you…
so don’t betray me
I have not sold you..so don’t sell me!”

The world´s poetry movement declares itself to be in a state of rebellion regarding the sad history of humanity.

We are against the war-torn history of countless barbaric civilizations that have left hundreds of millions of dead throughout the so called "human evolution" here on earth.

We oppose the petty and dangerous practices against nature and the peoples of the world, which have deteriorated and damaged our oceans, lakes, rivers, atmosphere, the earth´s climate, devastated forests, inviting expanding

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The 18th Time of the Writer, International festival of writers, hosted by the Centre for Creative Arts, University of KwaZulu-Natal invites South African high school learners to submit their short stories for the annual Schools Short Story Competition by Friday 27 February.

The Struga Poetry Evenings and UNESCO have announced the competition for the international award “Bridges of Struga” 2015, for the best debutant book by a young world author.

The “Bridges of Struga” award was established in 2003, as part of the extensive collaboration with UNESCO, on the occasion of the celebration of the World Poetry Day the 21st of March, thus trying to stimulate, promote and affirm poetic works as one of the most significant creative spiritual expressions of mankind.

Nathalie Handal is one of the most important voices of the Arab Diaspora. The Invisible Star is the first contemporary collection of poetry that explores the city of Bethlehem and the lives of its exiles in such board geographic spaces, especially Latin America.

University of New Orleans English professor Niyi Osundare will receive the 2014 Nigerian National Order of Merit Award, the nation's top prize in science, medicine, engineering/technology and the humanities. Osundare is a poet, dramatist and essayist and one of Nigeria's preeminent public intellectuals.

DJS BOOKS, an imprint of Red Hen Press/USA, is teamed up with Poetry East West, a Chinese-English literary journal in Beijing, in presenting the 2014 awards to twelve extraordinary poets in four categories.

The Queen will award Her Majesty’s Gold Medal for Poetry for the year 2014 to Imtiaz Dharker, Buckingham Palace announced this morning, 17 December. The Medal is awarded for excellence in poetry, and will be presented to Imtiaz by The Queen in Spring 2015.

Mr Adjei Agyei-Baah, a poet and a lecturer in Strategic Management from Ghana, has emerged one of the winners of the prestigious Third Japan-Russia Haiku contest, organized annually by Akita International University, Japan.

Winner of the King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies Translation of Arabic Literature Award 2013
"The translation is magnificent, and the author is a revelation. Majnun Layla is a complex and layered lyrical story of love. Almost all the sensual and intellectual levels of this story end up in creating a cultural mosaic that is elegiac, supple, graceful, and profound" (ndrei Codrescu).

Ehalakasa Festival returns to Nubuke Foundation from 24th to 26th October. For three nights Ehalakasa’s essence of presenting spoken word, music and dance on one stage will offer an entrée into the growth of poetry and other performance art disciplines in Ghana.

Just to recall that the 8th edition of the international Poetry festival 3v www.festival3v.org will be held from 21 to 22 november 2014 at Dschang a town near Douala. It will consist on a non stop 24h events at schools, streets and an orphanage on the theme "La guerre n'est pas gaie" that's "War is not fair".

One of the dastardly crimes often committed against women globally has caught the attention of two of Africa’s most respected poets, Kacey Moore (Ghana's Representative in the current Big Brother Hotshots ) and Rhymesonny.

Organised by the Centre for Creative Arts (University of KwaZulu-Natal), the 18th Poetry Africa is funded by the eThekwini Municipality, the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Arts and Culture, Goethe Institute and the French Institute of South Africa. The Centre for Creative Arts is housed in the College of Humanities at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and is a special project of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor Cheryl Potgieter.

The Timbila Poetry Project, the leading poetry movement in South Africa has once again
added a riveting anthology of poetry, Tša Borala, a remarkable feat in the tapestry of
indigenous publishing in Africa.

The Revolutionary Poets Brigade of Chicago presents a program at Promontory Point, around a bonfire (we're aiming for the one near the north end of the tip), with poetry, music, activists, and Food-Not-Bombs-provided meals, in solidarity with the World Poetry Movement's call to action for poetic events against war and for world peace during this month of July!

I do not often commend our efforts. They can seem too little, too late. Then ! re- read Darwish, Hikmet, Neruda, Passolini...and remember our mission as artists who care, our responsibilities as poets to be a voice, howbeit in the wilderness it seems at times.

As I had informed you before, we successfully had WPM poetry reading session yesterday July 21st. I had invited fifty people, and all chairs were taken. In the beginning I had a speech about World Poetry Movement in Farsi, and" Deven Stewart" who is a professor of Emory university in Atlanta translated my words into English.

The Tinos International Literary Festival combines Culture and Tourism (a dream of every Minister of Culture, as mentioned in the Greek Press). Every year, during the last weekend of July, the public has the opportunity to meet, discuss with, and listen to readings by participating writers.

Thank you for these news about WPM. I’m grateful for your actions for a world without wars.

I’m back from Slovenia where the 46th meeting Writers for Peace (7-11/05/2014) has been organized by PEN Club (Poetry-Novels-Essays, a 145 structures), and gathered a hundred writers from all over the world to discuss about the necessity of peace, in memory of the terrible 1st World War and its consequences.

Inspired by the quiet homage to the 1994 Rwanda Genocide that Wangechi Mutu started posting on social media on April 6, I decided to respond. I offer these poetic pieces as a way to think about the way in which we navigate through knowing about and understanding the genocide and other wars that endure.

Poetry is under pressure to justify its existence – not just in Germany, but everywhere in Europe. So 47 poets from all over Europe are now making their statements on the question ‘What’s the point of poetry?’ with fundamental answers about the relationship between poetry, society and culture in their countries.

regards from Berlin where we face the upcoming poesiefestival berlin ( www.literaturwerkstatt.org ) which takes place from 5th of june till 13th of june.

More than 60 events, 150 poets and artists coming from 27 countries. The main theme this year is “Fractures/Brakes” and has to do with political trubble and catastrophies we have wordwide. We ´ll give a whole day to poetry from Turkey , an other one for poetry from Ukraine. World War 1 is theme as well as “Civil Disobedients”. Poetry can measure societal processes and changes as if with an echo sounder.

BEIJING, May 7. Accompanied by the melodious sound of the harp, on the 7th Sino-French Poetry Festival kicked off in Beijing. Jacques dean of Dallas and many other French and Chinese poets recite poetry on the same stage, the dedication of a Field wonderful 'without borders' poetic event.

A group of cultural networks have launch today, 1 May 2014, a Declaration on the Inclusion of Culture in the Sustainable Development Goals and is calling on the international community to support the campaign: The future we want includes culture.

Till 25th April the 7th ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival is calling short films made on the basis of poems. The total value of the prizes in the competition is € 13,000.

The Festival is also inviting entries of films based on this year’s »Festival poem«, »Die Liebe in Zeiten der EU« (Love in the Age of the EU) by Björn Kuhligk. The directors of the three best films will be invited to Berlin to meet the poet and have the opportunity to present and discuss their films.

International Poetry Award “Bridges of Struga” 2014
International Poetry Festival “Struga Poetry Evenings”
Promotion of the World Poetry Day in collaboration with UNESCO
Conditions for participation in the competition for the award:

Bulgarian spoken rock band LaText performing on 22nd of November 2013 at the artclub Priests of the Muses in Sofia during the World Poetry Movement event LaText+, dedicated to the demands of social justice in the world.